Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1887-04-14

sam Jones will open q week In Nash
vile during the summe in the interest Of
prohibition.
The United States wooden war ships
Shenandoah and Lackawana will be sold
at public auction.
John 7. Raymond. the comedian, died
in Evansville. Ohio, early Sunday morn.
ing after q brief illness.
St. louis is already preparing for the
National Encampment of the Grand Army
to be held in that city in September.
Harry Clay, a famous old trotting stall
lion, died in Middletown, N. Y, at the
advanced age of thirty-four years.
The Texas drouth continues IN ell its
terrible severity. Over 800 square miles
of territoryis affected and great suffering
prevails. ahTI
The new general assembly of Rhode
Island now stands 80 Democrats and 46
Republicans, with twelve vacancies yet
to fill.
The Junction Iron works at Mingo, o.,
closed down. owing to increased freight
rates occasioned by the inter State COM
merce law.
The winter wheat in Ohio, Indiana,
Illinois, Kansas and Missouri is reported
considerably injured by the continued
dry weather.
Reports from Texas in regard to the
starving cattle are indeed gloomy, and
the State authorities will doubtless be
compelled to take the matter in hand,
The Railway Age says that mileage Of
new railroads for the first quarter of 1887
Is longer than that for the same length of
time ever knewn in, the history of the
county.
George Bancroft, Americas greatest
historian and the only living member Of
President Folks Cabinet, will shortly
visit Nashville as the guest Of Mrs.
james X. Polk.
Springfield, Ohio, manufacturers are
experimenting with petroleum as fuel.
The tests have shown that it can be used
with advantage in the manufacture Of
malleable iron.
Friends of General Beaurcgard are sore
by Jefferson Davis's high praise Of Cen
eral Bragg in his speech at the unwilling
of the statue of Albert Sidney johnson.
at New Orleans.
Rhode Island the other day for the first
time in twenty.seven years elected a Dem
ocratic governor and at the same time de-
feated the female suffrage amendment by
more than $4,000 majority.
The killing of sixteen persons in q
wreck on the Chicago. Milwaukee and
st. Paul railroad cost the company ex-
actly $46, $50 in damages. The accident
was caused by the carelessness Of q drunk.
en- engineer.
1t is alledged that the fund for the
Grant monument would increase more
: rapidly in New York If assurance were
given that the work would be of a char.
c acter to win the approval Of critics and
n intelligent people generally.
a Washington is about to be attacked
with another fit of Sunday virtue, pm
"a effort being made TO close up restaurants,
Spews.stands, and all other kinds Of bust
9ess. That is the signal for q simila
10 wave 10 sweep over the country.
A citizen of Ionia, Mich, while stand
ing with wetrubbers on an iron door ste
:. suddenly lost the power Of walking. II
~ nearly tainted from terror, thinking h
y. was paralyzed. Upon discovering thathi
in rubbers were frozen to the doorstep h
y. felt better.
lit 1t is estimated that 500, 900 was sper
It. by the New York churches for floral DEF
r. orations, and the amount spent by ind
q. viduals as much more. The custom {
70 sending set pieces, baskets and bouquet
W to friends on Easter Day was more pop,
ne lar this year than ever before.
~ Barnum wants 500, 900 out of til
n Grand Trunk Railway for killing Jumbo
to No mercy will be allowed railroads fC
" killing up live stock, whether it consis
of pigs or elephants, and the fact thi
!" Jumbo objected 20 being run over by
H. little freight train should not be plea
IL. In their favor.
to The new Kansas liquor law makes
II necessary for a man desiring to open
he drugstore to have twenty.fiv wome
Ids signers to the petition, and any perso
II xyhn htuu Hnrnr pnt1ct no hafnrn n pntav
in public and make affidavit as to what us
est he will make of 1t and that 1t Is not il
he tended for a beverage.
W The hotels have made special rates fC
,er the entertainment of the farmers who al
to expected to attend their annual conver
ton which meets in this city on the 1T
nts and 18th of next May. The committee {
nd arrangements will do all in their powe
'rk to render their visit TO our city one {
OF pleasure and profit, and TO make the col
led vention a great success.
or. The vote of Rhode Island was thre,
III, quarters against woman suffrage. |
or, Kansas, where women are entitled to vol
ne at municipal elections, more than foui
fifths of the women refused TO 20 TO tn
polls at the last elections. OF those vo
ing the majority were colored women an
At the wives Of ignorant whites. In WITCH
to, where 600 women were registered, 90
Sor put down their occupation as sports,
oi and 300 were Prohibitionists.
to The prohibitionists in Tennessee al
getting ready for a vigorous campaign
sor 1t Is announced that Reverends So,
are Jones and Sam Small will take part in |
ma, also Frances E. Willard, the gifted pres
AT, dent Of the Women's Christian Tempe
90 ance Union. 1t is said that Senator Go
quit, of Georgia, will also make son
speeches in the state. Besides, a nun
ind Der Of leading %clergymen In the state q
expected to take on active part in u
campaign. Hon. j. II. Russell Chat
10 Chairman of the State Temperance All